RE: Making pinholes without a darkroom?

> I am also the "Leave No Trace" instructor for our troop and it would not look good to scouts if I was extremely careful about discarding "dishwater" then dumped chemicals. :-)
>

As a sometime backpacker, I am in the "take only pictures, leave only the
lightest of footprints, and bring home only memories" camp. At home I know that pouring fixer down the drain will not cause problems, but doing so out in the field would be another thing.

In the "reducing weight" category, one might consider going the Readyload direction. Although this is a bit more expensive, it will significantly reduce the weight and bulk that one needs to carry around.

Cheers -

george

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 --- On Fri 06/18, Chuck Flagg < cflagg4@mchsi.com > wrote:
From: Chuck Flagg [mailto: cflagg4@mchsi.com]
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:40:46 -0500
Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?

Hello Ric,<br>I was showing the boys that it could be done, which was one reason, the<br>other was to see if I could do it. I am also the "Leave No Trace"<br>instructor for our troop and it would not look good to scouts if I was<br>extremely careful about discarding "dishwater" then dumped chemicals. :-)<br>Just trying to set a better example. :-)<br><br>I'm glad you asked. One other reason was to be able to see if I was trying<br>good exposures times. I shoot by intuition, look at the light conditions<br>and try to make a somewhat educated guess from past experience. Most of the<br>time I am right on, sometimes I am waaaay off. I've carried home [8] 35mm<br>canister pinhole cameras only to discover I under exposed them all.<br>:-0<br><br>So if I am trying to get that "nice" shot from the camping trip, if I<br>develop them there I know I have a viable negative and maybe spark the<br>interest of a scout who is later interested in Photography Merit Badge. I<br>have several past scouts who are now profess
ional photographers from taking<br>part in one of my informal camp demo's. Being a teacher that give me more<br>reward than anything.<br><br>I thought with the current thread, my experiments might give some other<br>people an idea to pursue in their own way or consider a minimal darkroom.<br>I've already gotten one idea I hadn't thought of: to carry a few pieces of<br>prepared cyanotype paper.<br><br>On one last note, somewhere I had heard or read about photo journalists<br>during the war developing their film along streams in their helmets. I<br>thought about some of those amazing photos and thought it might be a fun<br>challenge for me minus the bullets, bombs etc. :-)<br><br>Take Care,<br>Chuck<br><br>*My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I<br>am. -Unknown *<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org<br>[mailto:owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org]On Behalf Of Ricardo<br>Wildberger Lisboa<br>Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:57 AM<b
r>To: pinhole-discussion_at_spitbite.org<br>Subject: RES: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?<br><br><br>Chuck<br><br>If you don't print while camping, but when you're back home, why don't you<br>leave it to develop the film also at home, being able so to pack lighter<br>and avoid disposal problems (and saving space and risk of wetting your<br>backpack with chemicals), specially if the development is done in a<br>changing bag, where nobody but you is with hands on? Really excuse me if all<br>that is not my business, but I just got curious. Are there any reasons I'm<br>not grasping now or educational motives (like having the boys involved in<br>the process, taking into account environmental aspects of it and having a<br>minimum result to show, or beyond) or what? Thank you,<br><br>Ric.<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML<br>pinhole-discussion mailing list<br>pinhole-discussion_at_spitbite.org<br>FAQ at http://spit
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